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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 60b   View pdf image
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                        March Court                      1740                60

Contrary to the peace of the said Lord proprietary that now is his good rule and Government and against the form of the Act of
Assembly in such Case thereof lately made and provided &c

                   Thereupon it is Commanded the sheriffe of Somerset County that he should take the said John Coffin if he should be found
in his bailywick and him should safe keep so that he might have his body before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of
Somerset to be held at dividing Creek in and for the County af.d the third tuesday of March Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred
and forty to answer unto his said Lordship of the Indictment af.d &c

                And now to witt the day and Year abovesaid at a Court then held at dividing Creek in and for the County afd
before his Lordships Justices the aforesaid John Coffin by John Handy Sheriffe of the County aforesaid to the barr here Ledd
in his proper person and being Instantly asked how he of the premisses afd above upon him Imposed would thereof acquitt
himselfe saith that he is not thereof guilty and thereupon of good and Evill he puts himselfe upon the Country
And Robert Jenckins Henry Gent his Lordships attorney who for his said Lordship in this behalfe prosecutes in Like
manner      Therefore Command is to the Sheriffe of the County aforesaid that he should Cause to Come here before the
afd Justices Immediately Twelve &c and who neither &c to Recognize &c   And the Jurors of that Same Jury by the afd
Sheriffe to this Impannelled to witt Hutton Hill David Polk John Woolford Edward Rooke Thomas Pollitt
George Tull Panthur Laws Littleton Townsend William Gray John White Richard Wallis and John Davis
being Called Came who to say the truth of the premisses aforesaid being Elected Tryed and Sworn upon their Oath
say that the aforesaid John Coffin is not Guilty of the Felony in the Indictment aforesaid above upon him Imposed
in manner and form as the aforesaid John Coffin for himselfe above by pleading alledged

             Whereupon all and Singular the premisses being seen and by the Court here fully understood   It is
Considered by the Court here that the aforesaid John Coffin be quiet and goe thereof without day &a


His Lordship
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William Monks
 Whereas a Certain William Monks being bound by Recognizance in Twenty pounds Currt money of Maryland
for his good behaviour and appearance to March Court One thousand Seven hundred and thirty Nine with John
Eshen his Security in the Like Sume of Money for his the said William Monks good behaviour and appearance
as abovesaid   and for as much as the Said William Monks did not appear at the day afd at the Instance and
Request of the afd John Eshen ^the^ aforesaid Recognizance hath been respited by the Court here from Court to Court untill
this Court &c   And now to witt this seventeenth day of March One thousand seven hundred and forty at a Court then
held at dividing Creek before his Lordships Justices Came the afd William Monks in Custody of the Sheriffe of the
County afd in whose Custody before that time for the Caus afd was Committed and by the Sheriffe Ledd to the Barr in his
proper person   And Thereupon the said William Monks and his Security are discharged from the Recognizance
afd   Whereupon the said William Monks is Ordered to Give Security for all fee or fees due by means of
the Recognizance afd to any person or persons whatsoever   but for want thereof the said William Monks is
Committed into the Custody of the Sheriffe of the County afd there to remain &.c   Afterwards in the Same Court
Came a Certain Aaron Lynn in his proper person and undertook for the said William Monks for the payment
of all fee or fees due by means of the Recognizance afd to any person or persons whatsoever &c


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
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